CME Outfitters, LLC, an award-winning independent accredited provider of multidisciplinary continuing medical education and related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an upcoming live and interactive evidence-based neuroscienceCME Journal Club series titled "Child ADHD: Exploring Complexities of Care." Premiering Monday, November 9, 2009, from 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET, the latest installment of neuroscienceCME Journal Club is a special series on ADHD in children. Robert L. Findling, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University and Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH, will host three interviews on this topic. In each session, guest faculty will join Dr. Findling to provide a brief synopsis of a recently published scientific work. Dr. Findling and his guest will engage in a lively discussion about the merits of the article, its implications for the field of psychiatry, and key practice points arising from the data published in the article...

The goal of the Investigational Clinical Amyloid Research in Alzheimer's, or ICARA, study, is to determine if an investigational drug called bapineuzumab can help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Canton-based Neuro Behavioral Clinical Research, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western University Memory and Aging Center, and Dr. Rakesh Ranjan and Associates in Beachwood are among two hundred study sites across the country testing the new drug …

One in every 91 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is higher than previous estimates, a national survey of parents showed. It's unclear, however, whether the finding reflects an actual increase in the prevalence of autism and related disorders, Michael Kogan, PhD, of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and colleagues wrote in the Oct. 5 issue of Pediatrics … Max Wiznitzer, MD, of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, said there were other limitations as well. The analysis was conducted under the assumptions that the diagnoses were correct, that the diagnostic criteria used were appropriate and comparable to those used by others, that the clinician making the diagnosis had experience doing so, and that the parent accurately reported the diagnosis, he said …

Researchers at California's U.C. Davis say their study shows children with autism do not metabolize mercury differently … "The type of damage that we know that mercury does not result in autism, it results in other issues, but not in autism," said Max Wiznitzer, MD - University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital …

… Based on surveys of more than 78,000 parents of children between the ages of 3 and 17. But since verbal interviews were used to gather the information, some doctors are skeptical of the accuracy. (Dr. Max Wiznitzer of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital,) "When we're dealing with a parent report, we don't know who gave the label, and was it an accurate label …

Carla Hendricks learned her 13-year-old son Keith had autism when he was a toddler. "Keith is not very verbal … an accurate label," Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a neurologist at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland said . The study …

"They took out my ovaries," the 46-year-old woman told the doctor. "And my appendix, and most of my colon. I had several exploratory surgeries where the doctors were just trying to find out what was wrong." Dr. Thomas Chelimsky listened attentively. "I've had, like, 13 surgeries," the woman reported, her voice edged with sadness. "It's really been a nightmare." For the past 23 years, this slender, middle-aged woman was tormented by these intermittent attacks of abdominal pain and fever that lasted sometimes for weeks. None of her doctors had been able to figure out what was causing the strange episodes of devastating illness that prompted all these surgeries and dozens of hospitalizations … Chelimsky was a neurologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. The patient was there to have her hands and feet examined by EMG — electromyography — a test that looks for damaged nerves by sending tiny shocks through the muscle to the delicate strands that connect it to the spinal cord and brain …

Neurosurgeons at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic use different variations of the technique, called SEEG (stereoelectroencephalography), which places electrodes deep in the brain to find the source of seizures … Dr. Hans Lüders, director of the Epilepsy Center at UH, and Dr. Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, a neurosurgeon at the Clinic's Epilepsy Center, have traveled to France and Italy for fellowships over the past four years to train in the technique …

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $800,000 to University Hospitals Case Medical Center to test a drug that targets stem cells of glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer. Funded though the NIH's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus package, the multicenter, national study is coordinated through the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium. The trial will enroll 40 patients nationwide …

Researchers from the Memory and Cognition Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center will begin testing an intriguing new approach to slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using Intravenous Immune Globulin (IGIV), also known as gammaglobulin. IGIV is traditionally used to treat primary immunodeficiency disorders, but is not currently approved for treating AD, which is one of the leading causes of dementia in the elderly. Initial research in experimental models and patients suggests that immunotherapy targeting beta amyloid (the protein that forms the core of plaques in the brain) may provide a more effective way to treat AD. Antibodies that bind to beta amyloid are present in IGIV, which is made from the blood of several thousand healthy adults…

NMT Medical, Inc. announced today that, upon recommendation of the CLOSURE I Executive Committee, it will commence data analysis for its landmark patent foramen ovale (PFO)/stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) clinical trial – originally scheduled for the fall of 2010 – in April 2010. …The trial is being led by Principal Investigators Anthony Furlan, MD, and Mark Reisman, MD. Dr. Furlan is Chairman, Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland.

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The doctors at University Hospitals have never seen a patient like Jack Kachmarik. He arrived by helicopter the night of Sunday, May 31. It was unusual enough to see a 19-year-old having a major stroke. But for Jack to say his name and lift his right arm within minutes after blood clots were cleared from his cerebral arteries, that was remarkable…The emergency doctor at St. John West Shore Hospital also suspected Jack was high. It looked like an overdose. The hospital ordered a toxicology test. But doctors figured out Jack was in deeper trouble. About 10:30, they called University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and soon loaded Jack on a helicopter destined for UH… Workers started an IV that contained clot-dissolving medication. Dr. Jeffrey Sunshine, a specialist in neuroradiology, threaded a catheter from an artery in Jack's groin into his head…

Last year, Ryan Naylor was driven to University Hospitals Phoenix Award ceremony in Munson Township and walked into the event leaning on a cane. This year, the recovering stroke victim was able to drive there by himself and proudly step in on his own … However, he recalls some moments during the medical helicopter ride from Ashtabula County to downtown Cleveland and reassuring words from a nurse. "We're going to take you to UH because they have the best stroke care," she said. "I know that you don't feel good right now, but you're in a safe place … "A few weeks later he was transferred to UH Extended Health Care Campus in Munson Township to begin rehabilitation …

Carm Merola has looked after her disabled, 62-year-old brother for years, so she knew when his legs swelled during a recent hospitalization that something was wrong… Efforts to reduce readmissions are focused on better care of patients after they leave the hospital – making sure they take medications correctly, for instance. Such preventive strategies "aren't part of the health-care culture," said Dr. Anthony Furlan, chairman of neurology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. "We're not paid to do this, and the system is not set up to do this."…